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TIL The word sepia comes from the Mediterranean Cuttlefish, a type of squid whose dark brown ink was used by classical civilizations. The name of this squid thereafter comes from the Greek ''sepein'' meaning: to rot. Most likely from the way the fish dirties the waters with its ink.

k6bm TIL James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was in the Canadian military and on D-Day killed two snipers and was himself shot 6 times … by friendly fire.
QN7yE TIL the Geographic Center of the contiguous states of the U.S is about 2 miles northwest of Lebanon, Kansas. It was officially established by the U.S Geological Survey and is a point where a plane map of the 48 states would balance if it were of uniform thickness.
J078 TIL that before the invention of the internal combustion engine, gasoline was considered a useless byproduct of the oil refining process used to make kerosene.
Opb7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson often peed in public, even during his presidency. One time, a gust of wind blew his urine onto the leg of one of his Secret Service agents. When the agent informed him he was being peed on, President Johnson replied, “I know. That’s my prerogative.”
KODg9 TIL the main reason rent prices are skyrocketing in US cities is due to 1950s single-family home zoning laws and Baby Boomer homeowners who obstruct affordable housing from being built for reasons like "wrong aesthetic" or "blocking the sun" because they don't want their property values to go down